Comments on: Weber/Schmitt

By: Jake McNulty

Jake McNulty — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 06:07:32 +0000

Can you please cite the paper alluded to in Mommsen, in which Habermas traces the connection between Weber and Schmitt? Do you know where I might find this paper?
Thank you!

By: craig

craig — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 17:31:18 +0000

I saw a recent open call for short manuscripts (about 60,000 words or about 150-175 pages) and wondered if I’d be able to write something like that on the side… While it isn’t what I want to do my dissertation (or post-doc) on, it is something I want to write about (especially before someone else does it first and better). “It” being Weber, Schmitt, Benjamin and Lefort, Agamben, Derrida.

By: old

old — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 14:42:45 +0000

Wonderful post. Someday soon I hope to do a post over at the weblog regarding your take on Weber, Schmitt, Agamben, and Foucault (though I’ve by no means read Schmitt sufficiently at this point). My wife Jodie just finished a paper, which I helped to edit substantially, on Weber and Foucault. The title is ‘Rationalized Labor: the End of Enchantment?’, and its primary task is to deal with the nexus between the terms listed in the title plus madness as they appear in *The Protestant Ethic*, *Sociology of Religion* and *Madness and Civilization*. The argument suggests that Foucault’s understanding of the ‘enchantment of work’ deepens Weber’s thesis and, in fact, more fully explains the continuing power of capitalism in a post-Puritan world.